For the Between the Lines Contest: [link] . I hope I'm not too late. (My apologies to the admins if I submitted this more than once - the system kept giving me error-messages for the LotRClub, so I submitted it to Elves-of-Tolkien instead. I don't know if any of them went through.)

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After casting the Silmaril into the sea, it is said that Maglor took to wandering the shores, singing in pain and regret beside the waves. It is also stated elsewhere that it was the gift of elven minstrels to evoke visions from their songs. Now imagine him singing of his brothers.

While making this piece I was never entirely sure whether he was bidding them to come to him, or bidding them to stop haunting him. Perhaps both.

Thank you very much! I find Maglor's story one of the most beautiful in the Silmarillion, precisely because it is one of the most sad and tragic ones, so finding that reflected by the reception of the picture is very flattering. All the same, I hope you didn't cry. *hands tissue*

It's a very sad fate, isn't it? But I like to imagine that he eventually made his way home somehow, and was reunited with his family. Otherwise that prospect is too bleak even for me to enjoy, however much I enjoy bleak concepts otherwise.

It's the intent that counts, and I understand that art can be a very private thing that is hard to articulate (I usually resort to keyboardsmashing), so that's fine? Thank you for taking the time to craft the comment you left, it means a lot either way.